OATH KEEPERS PENNSYLVANIA VETERAN AND PATRIOT SUMMIT JUNE 3-5

OATH KEEPERS SUMMIT is a call to anyone concerned about the direction our country is headed. This is a gathering of like minded people regardless of any other group affiliation. We do not condone violence or aggressive behavior toward anyone and anyone found doing so will be removed. (This is a private event and we reserve the right to ask people to leave at our discretion.) This is a weekend to gather information as to the best way to move forward and protect the Constitution in the days ahead. There will be several speakers covering a variety of agendas.

*NITC (National Infantry Training Center) Classes – The cost will be $25 a person, per class, plus $10 a mag for blank ammunition. You must bring an AR-15. We will provide the BFA (Blank Firing Adapter) and camo face paint. These classes are all credited toward the Oath Keepers National Training Standards Certifications. This is just a teaser class for their larger, more comprehensive 3 day/2 night tactical class they will be holding the following month at the same location.

NITC will arrive on site Thursday and between Thursday afternoon to Friday afternoon will be giving free lessons on firearms safety and weapons handling.

Bring everything you will need to survive for 3 days on a mountain in PA.

Access up the mountain is a dirt road with ruts and switchbacks and may not be trailer friendly.

Camper and tent camp areas are not reserved, but plentiful.
Most will be tent camping. There will be Porta Potties.
Some attendees may arrive on Thursday, but most probably on Friday.

NOTE FROM STEWART: This is a working summit, not a place to just listen to speakers. As with the state and regional summits we have done in the past, the primary mission is to bring people together from the state (or region), regardless of what group they are in, and regardless of whether or not they are Oath Keepers members, and form them into teams with others near them, teach them how to organize that team with skillset sub-teams, based on the Special Forces A and B team model, and teach them how to do an area assessment/area study of their own AO and then take concrete, effective steps to strengthen their neighborhoods, town, county, and state. Saturday morning, Intelligence expert Sam Culper and I will lead participants in that crucial team building and assessment methods, and they will break out into groups based on where they are from, so they can form an effective team (the goal is to show them how to do it, so they can go home and teach/lead others). This is a “train the trainer” and “train the leader” working summit. Then, we will have speakers and training classes on each of the skillsets that are part of our CPT program.

There will be speakers on specific threats we face as a nation, along with some very solid skill training, but the principle goal is that team building and intelligence assessment.

INFANTRY SMALL UNIT TACTICS

Of special note is the daily infantry small unit tactics classes that will be provided by the National Infantry Training Center (NITC) – (formerly known as North Idaho Training Center). Learning to fight effectively as a team is one of the most vital skills that all of you must have in your toolbox. Unfortunately, very few instructors teach the core infantry skills of move, shoot, and communicate in buddy team, fire team, and squad, to the public. Most firearms instructors only teach individual skills and refuse to teach real infantry small unit tactics.

NITC is one of those rare training schools that do so, and do so very well. The experienced infantry instructors at NITC can give you a start on the vital infantry skills such as reacting to enemy fire and effectively breaking contact, among others. They will be running a class Friday night, Saturday night, and then again on Sunday during the day. Each four hour (or more) block of instruction will be only $25.00 (a real steal) plus $10.00 or so per magazine full of blanks you will fire. Please also bring some live ammo in case we can arrange to do some jungle lane shoots on Sunday.

HAND TO HAND AND BLADE COMBATIVES FOR THE GUNMAN

We will also have informal classes on hand to hand and blade combat for the gunman. Those classes will be held before and after each meal, on each meal break, and into the evening after formal events end, and on Sunday afternoon once the other classes are over. Jason Van Tatenhove and I will be teaching those classes. Jason is an MMA fighter, a Brown belt in Judo, and has also trained extensively in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Mu Thai kickboxing, and Western Boxing. He has fought in Thai Boxing and Western Boxing. He has also trained in Filipino martial arts.

I (Stewart) have trained in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (just a rusty blue belt), basic Western Boxing, military combatives, Jeet kun Do, and in the Villabrille-Largusa Kali System under the late Lindsey Largusa (Kali is a Filipino blade, stick, and empty hand martial art and is what I am most extensively trained in). I have also trained extensively in close quarters pistol and gun retention/disarms.

The goal of this class is to give “gun guys” some effective basic empty hand methods to counter sudden close range assault (both empty handed sucker punches and close attack by weapons) so they can fight until they can draw their pistol, and fight while using it, or, if the bad guy is going for their pistol, how to keep him from getting it, and how to get your blade or backup gun into play. We will cover weapon retention and disarms (handgun, long-gun, knife, and stick) in the context of that close range assault, both standing and on the ground (last place you want to be, but it happens), and while using your empty hands and also a backup blade/gun.

In addition, if anyone wants to learn the basics of Kali (starting with the stick), I would be happy to do some work on that too, as time allows.

This is a free class, but please do at least bring some leather gloves, some racketball goggles or similar eye protection, and if you can, some street hocky gloves or similar, and any plastic or rubber training guns or knives you may have, and if you have some bamboo kali/escrima sticks, or aluminum trainers, please bring those too. I will bring a few rubber fake training guns, some rubber knives, a couple of aluminum training knives, and some padded sticks, focus mits and a kicking shield, and one protective helmet, but if you have some training gear, please bring it.

This class is open to all, regardless of training or lack of training, and regardless of physical condition. We will adapt to you and you can go as light or as hard as you like, with no pressure, so please attend. Hand to hand is a vital skill and something we need to make part of our CPT training.

"A veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The ''United States of America'', for an amount of ''up to and including his life.''" – Author Unknown"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." – Thomas Paine"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine

Veterans, you swore an Oath...

Oath of Enlistment

I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.

Officers Oath

I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

Site Dedication

This site is dedicated to the memory of John William Adams (1925-2006), Marine and Oath Keeper extraordinaire.

John Adams, at the age of 16, lied about his age to join the Marines so he could fight against Imperial Japan in the Pacific. His enlistment date was December 10, 1941, just three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor (see below). As a Marine rifleman, he fought the Japanese from island to island, across the pacific, including at Iwo Jima. We may have good men, but we never had better.

Until his death in 2006, he was a dedicated patriot who still took his oath to defend the Republic deadly serious. May God grant you the courage to do likewise.

Stewart is the founder and Director of Oath Keepers. He served as a U.S. Army paratrooper until disabled in a rough terrain parachuting accident during a night jump.

He is a former firearms instructor and former member of Rep. Ron Paul’s DC staff.

Stewart previously wrote the monthly Enemy at the Gates column for S.W.A.T. Magazine

Stewart graduated from Yale Law School in 2004, where his paper “Solving the Puzzle of Enemy Combatant Status” won Yale’s Miller prize for best paper on the Bill of Rights. He assisted teaching U.S. military history at Yale, was a Yale Research Scholar, and is writing a book on the dangers of applying the laws of war to the American people.